by Chester Sam­bra­no

Petrotrin re­tirees are once again call­ing on the gov­ern­ment to re­in­state their pen­sion and med­ical plans.

They did so dur­ing a protest out­side the of­fi­cial res­i­dence of the Prime Min­is­ter in St Ann's on Sun­day af­ter­noon.

The plans stopped when the com­pa­ny was shut down in 2018.

Speak­ing with the me­dia dur­ing the protest, Pres­i­dent Gen­er­al of the Oil­field Work­ers Trade Union (OW­TU) An­cel Ro­get said while Fi­nance Min­is­ter Im­bert has told them the pen­sion plan re­mains, he ar­gued that this is not so.

As it re­lat­ed to the med­ical plan, Ro­get called on Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley to "have a heart" and re­open the med­ical fa­cil­i­ties which the work­ers used to have their health is­sues tak­en care of.

The mat­ter is cur­rent­ly be­fore the In­dus­tri­al Court and is to be heard in Oc­to­ber.